THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE: A MEMOIR
Book ID/图书代码： 12844016B89104
English Summary/英文概要： An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free.
Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father’s steadfast efforts—assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.
With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father’s generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： | 从危险之城的迷惘少年，到蜚声国际的美国国家图书奖得主
| 奥巴马钟爱的作家塔那西斯·科茨关于少年时代的回忆
| 打开这本书，追随他诗性的语言，发现他与众不同的成长之旅！
在不公的世界里，一个父亲要用尽多少力量，才能保护他的儿子不致跌落深渊？在充满威胁的道路上，一个男孩要经历多少次抗争，才能自由而安全地成人？这是由奥巴马钟爱的作家塔那西斯·科茨讲述的属于他自己的传奇父子故事，也是当代美国角落里，无数家庭的真实生存缩影，无数少年的真实成长之路。
以诗意又有力的语言，塔那西斯·科茨回忆了他的父亲，一名越战老兵、黑豹党员、著名出版家，如何在一个断裂的时代，在一座危险的城市中，引领他的孩子们从巴尔的摩贫民区青少年的普遍命运中走出来。凭着父亲粗粝的爱意，科茨从街头的流血、学校的暴力、堕落的欲望中走出，从黑暗走向光明。
科茨“启用”了文学中极具张力的叙事方式，在吟咏和讲述中横贯了某个维度的记忆。它如此好看，带有小说的意味，又时时雄辩，像一部私人的《史记》。
——路内
我读了科茨的三部作品，从文学造诣来看，最有冲击力的是《美丽的抗争》，他在书中回忆了少年时代父亲不同寻常的教育方式。——菲利普·罗斯（Philip Roth）
塔那西斯•科茨是属于嘻哈一代的青年詹姆斯•乔伊斯。——沃尔特•莫斯利（Walter Mosley）
这部作品的力量就在于，打开它，时间、空间、种族和阶层之间的隔阂都不复存在，科茨在讲述他的故事，也在讲述我的故事，为我而讲。——迈克尔·夏邦（Michael Chabon）
这是一首抒情的嘻哈史诗。——《洛杉矶时报》
科茨将街头的抗争付诸文字，用近乎诗歌的语言讲述了真实而残酷的故事。——《出版人周刊》(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.”—Walter Mosley
“Haunting and healing . . . a splendid memoir” —Essence
“A brilliant coming-of-age story.”—People
“A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy . . . a love story, dispatched from the front lines of a family.”—Time Out New York
“A searing and soulful memoir.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of April 4, 1968
About the Author/作者介绍： 塔那西斯•科茨（Ta-Nehisi Coats），生于1975年，美国当代著名作家、记者，2015年获得麦克阿瑟天才奖，2016年入选《时代周刊》“全球最具影响力100人”。
2008年出版《美丽的抗争》；2015年出版《在世界与我之间》，获得美国国家图书奖、美国有色人种促进会形象奖，并入围普利策奖、全美书评家协会奖终选名单。曾担任《黑豹》《美国队长》编剧。作品销量突破200万册。
TA-NEHISI COATES is a blogger for TheAtlantic.com. He is a former staff writer at The Village Voice and Time, and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and numerous other publications. He lives in New York City.
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